Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack on a college campus in eastern China on Saturday, police said \u2014 the latest in a recent spate of attacks that has shaken a nation long used to low rates of violent crime. <\/p>\n
The attack took place around 6:30 p.m at the Wuxi Vocational Institute of Arts and Technology in the city of Yixing, according to a police statement. A suspect was detained at the scene, it said. <\/p>\n
The statement said the suspect was a recent graduate who was motivated by \u201cfailing (an) exam, not receiving a graduation certificate, and dissatisfaction with internship compensation.\u201d An investigation is ongoing. <\/p>\n
The attack is the latest mass casualty incident to hit China \u2014 a country of 1.4 billion that has one of the lowest rates of violent crime in the world, partly due to its strict gun controls and powerful mass surveillance. <\/p>\n
Last Monday, 35 people were killed after a car plowed into people who were exercising in the southern city of Zhuhai in the country\u2019s deadliest known attack on the public in a decade. Around 40 others were injured. <\/p>\n
As news of that attack spread, censors swooped in to take down online videos of the attack and moderate social media discussions <\/p>\n
In October, police arrested a 50-year-old man after a stabbing attack near an elementary school in Beijing injured five people, including three children. <\/p>\n
In September, three people were killed and 15 others injured in a knife attack at a suburban supermarket in Shanghai. <\/p>\n
Also in September, a bus crashed into a crowd of students and parents outside a school in Tai\u2019an city in Shandong province, killing 11 people and injuring 13 others. Chinese authorities did not reveal whether that incident was accidental or deliberate. <\/p>\n
This story has been updated with additional infomation.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Eight people were killed and 17 others injured in a stabbing attack on a college campus in eastern China on Saturday, police said \u2014 the latest in a recent spate of attacks that has shaken a nation long used to low rates of violent crime. The attack took place around 6:30 p.m at the Wuxi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}